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It brought me great sadness....then a sense of peace. I know that he is in heaven and that his family will be OK. I feel better now. Although I will never forget him.
...but have too much coursework to do right now to spare the time to read anything else. Would you let us know what you think of it after you've read it?
A new book I also want to check out in between courses is "The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul". Sounds interesting.
LG
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"It's too late in the world for flags."
- The Sand Pebbles, 1966
is what I'd call it. You won't cry sad tears. I found Tuesdays with Morrie sad and not a book I'd care to read again. 5 People is a keeper to read again and again.
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"
Very interesting, very different, and very short. I blew through it in a couple of hours, so my advice is to get it from the public library first, then decided if you want to get a copy to keep. I'm seeing it at $6.00 on Amazon, so no matter how much I enjoyed it, it wouldnt have been cheap for a couple of hours of reading had I bought it.
